THE SCOTCH EXPRESS IN COLLISION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6834, 23 April 1890, Page 4

THE SCOTCH EXPRESS IN COLLISION.

MANY KILLED AND INJURED. About half-past three on the morning of March 4, a fearful collision occurred at tbe North end of Citadel Station, Carlisle, i between the Scotch express, which left j London at eight o'clock the previous night, | and a Caledonian Company's engine. On reaching Carlisle the train was half an hour late, and owing, it is presumed, to the slippery state of the metals, the brakes failed to act, and the train rushed through ! the station at the rate oE twenty miles j an hour. A abort distance beyond the < platform it came into violent collision with a Caledonian Company's engine, which was coming up to the platform to take a train on to Scotland. The express engine maintained its position on the line, but the first two carriages — a third-class and a composite first and third- clasB — were telescoped. From tbe first coach the bodies of two men and a woman were taken, and from the second that of another woman. The most remarkable part of tbe disastrous occurrence was that the destruction of rolling stock and the loss of life and injury to passengers were confined to the two coaches next to the tender, which, telescoped so completely. No van separated the coaches from the tender, which was immediately followed by the first coach, consisting exclusively of third-class compartments, with a luggage locker in tbe centre. Through this vehicle the next coach for Aberdeen was projected with fearful momentum, stripping it nearly from end to end. A heavy sleeping saloon behind the Aberdeen carriage probably saved the remainder of the train. The four deceased persons bad evidently been killed instantaneously. Their names are William Lowlea, Miss Lowson, Walter Ford and Mary Huxter. There were fifteen injured, one of whom was Colonel Hambro, M.P. for South Dorset